Heptanema

Heptanema
	Fossil of Heptanema paradoxum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sarcopterygii
Genus:	Heptanema

Heptanema is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of northern Italy and Switzerland.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The type and only species is Heptanema paradoxum. Woodward (1891) suggested that Coelacanthus minor could be a species of Heptanema.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References[]

^ "Fossilworks: Heptanema". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ RENESTO, SILVIO; STOCKAR, RUDOLF (2018). "PlumX". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 124 (3). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/10771. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
^ Renesto, Silvio; Stockar, Rudolf (2018). "FIRST RECORD OF A COELACANTH FISH FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC MERIDE LIMESTONE OF MONTE SAN GIORGIO (CANTON TICINO, SWITZERLAND)" (PDF). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 124 (3). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/10771. ISSN 2039-4942.
^ Bellotti C. (1857) - Descrizione di alcune nuove specie di pesci fossili di Perledo e di altre località Lombarde. In: Stoppani A. (Ed.). Studii Geologici e Paleontologici sulla Lombardia: 419-438. Carlo Turati Tipografo Editore Milano.
^ Woodward A. S. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. London.
^ Forey P. L. (1998) - History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Chapman and Hall, London, 419 pp.